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Tennessee article - Tennessee Detail State nickname Other U.S. States Capital Nashville Memphis - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Tennessee was admitted to the Union in 1796 as the 16th state, and was created by taking the north and south borders of North Carolina and extending them with only one small deviation to the Mississippi River, Tennessee's western boundary. |
 | | Tennessee was the only state that seceded from the Union that did not have a military governor after the American Civil War, mostly due to the influence of President Andrew Johnson, a native of the state, who was Lincoln's vice president and succeeded due to the assassination. |
 | | The state is bisected by the Tennessee River. |
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